India Monsoons Intensifying, Hazard Risks Increasing, Study Says

India's monsoon rains are getting heavier, with more severe weather likely in the future, according to scientists who examined daily rainfall records since 1951.

"The magnitude of the strongest events has increased substantially over the past 50 years" in central India, lead study author B. N. Goswami, of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pashan, said in an email.